The Comment Awards And Their Cat Have Matching Rainbow Tanktops
“Wow, I’m hot, I want to make out with me.”
“Wow, I’m hot, I want to make out with me.”
I asked her if I could have a human-sized cat cone, the one that makes it looks like your head is poking through a piece of toast. Sadly, I cannot — but I can get the brace I need in Tennessee Lady Vols orange, so at least I can support my favorite team while also making sure the top half of my body is the color of a construction cone so I don’t get hit by any cars.
It’s amazing how the very second that corporations found value in queerness, they finally invested but in the safest way they possibly could: Rainbows.
Carmen has led the editorial team with compassion, pragmatism and heart. She brings to the table bright hopes for our future and a deep love for the roots of this strange little website.
What’s next for Autostraddle? What’s on the horizon? What makes our little queer publication GO? Join our senior team for an Autostraddle Town Hall & find out!
We’ve never run a member drive during Pride month before, but here we are, trying it! This June, we’d love to leave rainbow capitalism to the heterosexuals and focus on investing in our community year-round.
I had just come back from Yosemite days earlier, and realized that the only time I’m able to truly be myself, to be comfortable and authentic, is when I’m in the forest, or on a mountain, or somewhere else completely alone.
We’re bringing back our Queer IRL reader photo gallery for Pride 2021 and we’d like to feature your face in it!
“Snail4snail seems to be a very good match, I can say.”
Are there certain stereotypes and expectations in the queer community that keep you from feeling valid? Babe this is for you.
“Would absolutely watch this movie directed by Celine Sciamma.”
“Pride in June in central California means it’s guaranteed to be 105+ degrees Fahrenheit. I, too, would show my bare ass if I felt like being outside in that kind of heat.”
“As a Texan, I’m here to tell you: you can fry ANYTHING.”
“The last quiz revealed I am Anne Lister’s boots. Now my gender is ‘a tiny piece of arugula stuck between Tilda Swinton’s teeth.’ I can see where this is coming from but I am starting to feel slightly concerned.”
“Just surround yourself with dogs and keep chanting, ‘I was a lesbian in 1974.'”
“Does Girls Out of Hell describe the women I read about or me who intrigue me, live in my head rent free, and continuously pull me in like a moth to flame? Hell yeah!”
“I took the quiz twice and got Mr. Rogers’s sneakers and Anne Lister’s boots, which is the best (most aspirational) compliment I’ve ever gotten.”
This series will offer real, practical knowledge to readers who are living through the pandemic’s aftershock. Deadline for submissions is May 7!
“I definitely played rugby with the 2004 version of the Hey Mamas lesbians.”
“Has there ever been anything so relatable on this site?”